Description |
xii, 193 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents |
Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. Situating identities -- Ch. 3. Researching identities -- Ch. 4. Placing identities -- Ch. 5. Spaces of identity -- Ch. 6. Everyday times -- Ch. 7. Lifetimes -- Ch. 8. Negotiating identities in gendered organizations |
Summary |
"Drawing on a heritage of research that demonstrates the thoroughly gendered nature of work organizations, this book explores a key question, which, as yet, remains unanswered. What is the relation between gendered organizations and gendered identities? Rejecting accounts which suggest that identities are simply imposed on powerless bodies, the book traces the active negotiation of identity as we encounter the complex resources of organizational life. The book shows that these resources are embedded in the particular places, spaces and times that constitute work organizations, and, indeed, that it is through the negotiation of identities in these contexts that gendered organizations are made, re-made and - on occasion - challenged. Theoretical arguments from disciplines including sociology, geography, history, and gender studies are worked out through a new in-depth study of doctors and nurses working in the British National Health Service."--BOOK JACKET |
Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
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Based on an empirical study of identity making by doctors and nurses working in British National Health Service hospitals |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-187) and indexes |
Subject |
Hospitals -- Employees -- Case studies.
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Sex role in the work environment -- Case studies.
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Gender identity -- Case studies.
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Spatial behavior -- Case studies.
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Time -- Social aspects -- Case studies.
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Identity (Psychology) -- Social aspects -- Case studies.
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Gender Identity.
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Medical Staff, Hospital -- psychology.
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Spatial Behavior.
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Workplace -- psychology.
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Genre/Form |
Case Reports.
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Case studies.
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Author |
Leonard, Pauline, 1957-
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LC no. |
2005058982 |
ISBN |
9781403941121 hardback |
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1403941122 hardback |
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